Featured Athlete: Gabby Badway

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Name: Gabby Badway
School: Fox Chapel
Grade: 12
Sport: Girls Basketball
Position: Point guard

Background: Badway is a four-year starter for the Foxes and this season is a team captain. She is averaging 17.3 points, 5 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 steals per game. She was a first-team all-section selection in 2016. This season, Badway is shooting around 50 percent from the field. She is a member of the Fox Chapel Chapter of the National Honor Society, a Scholar-Athlete and is on the school’s Highest Honors roll. Badway is a student ambassador, and she accepted a full athletic scholarship from Lemoyne College, an NCAA Division II school in New York.

Coach Jenn O’Shea said: “Gabby has an outstanding work ethic and loves the game. She leads our young team by example. They feed off her enthusiasm and desire to win. Gabby has worked extremely hard over her high school career to improve all aspects of her game. She is a very coachable and likable player.”